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HILL COMPLEX

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This part of the city, the first of its kind to be invested by local populations, represents a real architectural tower: rather than imposing the form of their constructions on the environment, the builders of the time have balanced their buildings from existing rocks. Stone walls and walls were built according to the configuration of rock overflows and granitic blocks. For example, faults were transformed into access corridors, a natural amphitheater became a ritual place, etc. The whole is located at the top of a hill, 80 m above the valley. He sheltered successive sovereigns from the kingdom as well as their advisers and mediums. In the eastern part of Hill Complex, some steps actually lead to a half-circle square dominated by a huge rock. It was undoubtedly served by courthouses, but mainly by religious centers: there were objects of ceremony in bronze, as well as six sculptures of birds in steatite. Three more or less dicus paths lead to the Hill Complex, from where you can have beautiful views of Great Enclosure.

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Visited in october 2016
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Il est bien sûr impératif de gravir cette colline au sommet de laquelle les constructions sont magnifiquement imbriquées dans les blocs naturels. On peut monter par un nouveau sentier très facile sur la gauche de la colline ou par l'ancien accès à droite avec des escaliers étroits qui se faufilent entre les rochers. On peut donc faire une boucle, à mon avis plus simple par la gauche mais plus surprenante (plus raide) par la droite. Prenez le temps d'explorer tout le sommet, il y a des terrasses et des passages étonnants à découvrir.
De plus, on a de là-haut une très belle vue sur la plaine et sur l'enceinte principale.

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